How To: Manage Drupal Permissions More Easily

One of the most time-consuming tasks for any new Drupal site is setting up and testing what users can and can’t do. This is the realm of user permissions and role permissions. I’m guessing you’ve visited the checkbox maze - as I like to call it.

Drupal 7 usability: 6.0 Structure

Description: A direct manipulation tool that allows users to create and edit structural elements of their website without requiring knowledge of blocks, views, content types, themes and anything else overly technical/scary.

Current thinking/roadmap:

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Tutorial : How to write the Drupal Module?

Let say the module name is xxx.

Telling Drupal about your module
Edit modules/xxx/xxx.info:


name = Module Name
description = A description of what your module does.
dependencies = module1 module2 module3
package = "Your arbitrary grouping string"
version = "5.1"


Telling Drupal who can use your module
Edit modules/xxx/xxx.module:

Tutorial : Drupal Forums - Drupal Basics

Drupal's core module "Forum" is basic.  It uses the node and comment system to allow for conversations but not much more.  The look and feel isn't like other forums like vBulletin or phpBB and users may have some difficulty getting used to the interface, particularly if  your participants have used other forum systems in the past.  There are, however, a plethora of contributed modules that can help improve the user experience. 

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Tips : How to build a learning repository on Drupal (5.x) and PHP 5.1.x +

This guide gives instructions for building a Learning Object Metadata (LOM) repository on Drupal 5.x and PHP 5.1.x.

Please note that this guide is intended for the version 2 of the repository setup, please read the New Features from the v1 of the Learning Repository at the Features page for a list of changes.

Information : Theming Views 2 – The Basics

Views 2 provides a well structured theming environment allowing presentation control for each element of your view. And in my humble opinion, it rocks!

Those with no past experience with Views 1 will find Views 2 uses standard PHPTemplate theming techniques. All of your experience theming Drupal can be used with Views.

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